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November 7, 2023 • 19 mins
Kevin's back from NYC and he told us all about his trip!

Ricki doesn't tell her boyfriend what she wants for Christmas. He has to figure it out for himself. Zac does not approve.

And the average American hasn't tried a new restaurant in 5 months! We want to know your favorite local spots.

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(00:00):
Three things you need to know.Good morning, Ricky. She's got those
three things. What's going on?So we're getting a third season of The
Bear in twenty twenty four, whichtotally makes sense. FX announced it yesterday
that it's officially going to happen andit will air on Hulu. The first
season of the series was nominated forthirteen Emmys, Emeny's thirteen Emmys, and
season two is ninety nine percent ratingamong critics and a ninety two percent score

(00:23):
from viewers on Rotten Tomatoes. Sototally makes sense. Why would get a
season three? Season two ended ona very interesting note. I'm not going
to do any spoilers right now ifyou haven't watched it yet, but definitely
check it out because it is worthyour time, I promise you. Two
middle Tennessee cities are among the twentyfive fastest growing cities in the US.
Smart Asset, which is a financialtech company, they did a list of

(00:46):
the fastest growing cities with populations overone hundred thousand in the United States.
The growth is based on a bunchof different factors, but several cities around
Tennessee made the list, including twothat cracked the top twenty five Murphy's Borough
was right sixteenth and Arksville was rankedtwenty second, with populations growing nineteen point
one percent and fifteen point five percentbetween twenty seventeen and twenty twenty two.

(01:08):
Crazy to think about, and thereare currently no men in the top ten
on the Billboard Hot one hundred thisweek. Taylor Swift currently holds eight of
the ten spots. The other twogo to Doja Cat's paint the Town Red
and says it's snooze. That's prettycrazy. This is the second time in
history that this has happened. Lasttime it happened for the debut of Taylor
Swift's Midnights last year, where shebecame the only artist to take the entirety

(01:30):
of the top ten for herself.Love this for the women. Kudos to
you. I'm Ricky Sanchez, andthose are the three things you need to
know. Ricky, thank you verymuch. We're gonna play Taylor Swift in
a couple of minutes too. We'vegot Green Day tickets on the way next
hour as well. A lot goingon here this morning. Appreciate just starting
your day with us. I knowit's throwing everyone off. That sun's already
starting to come up a minute atsix o'clock Ricky, is, Zach and

(01:53):
Mano in the morning on one Oseven five the River. This year's Sexiest
Man Alive is picked tonight during JimmyKimmel Live. Huge deal. We have
our predictions. We thought long andhard about this. We want your predictions
as well. Texas six four,eight nine five Ricky, Zach and Menno
in the morning on The Sexiest ManAlive is being announced tonight on Jimmy Kimmel.

(02:14):
It's one of seven five of theRiver. We have our predictions for
who we think it should be.It's currently Chris seven, so it's not
gonna be Chris Evans. He receivedthe title last year, so his rain
and tonight done. I thought aboutthis this morning. You think it should
be? Yeah, Kevin, Ihave a whole thought sssiest Man Alive?
Kevin, I have like a topthere, and it's not who I think
it who I think they're gonna pick. So I was thinking, are they

(02:35):
gonna go with somebody young and hit, maybe like a bad bunny. Perhaps
that's who I assume is gonna win. That's bad bunny. Yeah, oh
wow? And then I started thinkingmaybe that every once in a while,
they throw like an older fella inthere, maybe a Jeff Goldbloom perhaps,
Oh, that would be a twist. He's got some sex appeal, yeah
he does, but a twist,but sure. I think they're going to
capitalize on the current climates and pickTravis Kelcey. Oh, I was thinking

(02:57):
Ryan Goslin, That's what I wasgonna guess because of the movie. Yeah,
and it's time. You know hedidn't win after any of these his
other huge movies. Yeah, everybody'sobsessed with him. Get a shirt up
the entire movie. Yeah, andif not now, then when will he
ever win? Yeah? Right,I was definitely thinking Ryan Gosling because of
the Barbie movie. I really wantbad Bundy, though, I would definitely
approve a bad buddy. No,I love me some venitough you guys.

(03:21):
Way about the Travis Kelcey thought,is that hold water? No? I
don't think so. I think it'stoo soon, Like I feel like next
year he needs time to be sexy. Yeah. Yeah, he's been big
for a while. He's just nowexploded because no, yes, he did
hosted SNL long before they started dating, Thank you. Taylor's super Bowl winner

(03:43):
actually have been a huge Travis Kelseyban for a very last year. But
I love the idea that Taylor puthim on the map. I just did
scre period six four eight ninety fivesentence a text you agree with any of
us, you have a completely differentthought. Include the word river there at
the beginning of your t six foureight nine by we find out tonight.
Yeah. It always put your nameand where you were texting from in the
text message as well. So shoutyou out and if one of us is
right, do we win something?Yeah, Kevin has to pay us.

(04:06):
Kevin always pay. Where do Iwin? No, You're not gonna win.
All right, let's hear from yousix four eight nine five Music from
Jelly Roll and Beyonce both on theweg Ricky is Zach and Mano in the
Morning one seven five The River sixtiestman Alive. We gave our predictions,
We asked you for yours. Wegot a few texts in. We got

(04:27):
Stephens Hendersonville, she said, PedroPasco. Oh he's one of your favors.
Right, was so much? That'sa good one. He's having a
moment, Kinsy said Matt Rife,which I totally agree with us. Yes,
comedian. Right, yes, yeah, larious, Yes, he is
attracted, very very easy attractive.Well for talking comedian was about Nick Bargetti,
local guy, Nashville guy. Igive you down with that. I

(04:48):
mean he's funny. That has waysexier. Sorry, sorry, Nay,
I love you so much here you'refunnier. We find out tonight, Ricky,
Zach and Mano in the morning onone O seven five, Kevin Man,
Oh, you're back from New YorkCity. Oh my gosh, we're
starting with the Christmas music. You'reback from New York City. It is

(05:08):
which is already covered in Christmas atthis point. And you did something very
specific while you were in New YorkCity. Well, we were there for
Christmas. We were there for themarathon. That was the reason we went
to watch my brother in law runthe marathon. But my kids love home
alone. Two lost New York somuch. They watched a good movie,
It's the best, It's the best. They watched it on the plane over
there. They were cracking up onthe airplane. So they wanted to see

(05:30):
as many of the sites as possible. Okay, she had to, you
know, kind of explain to themthat the pigeon Lady is not really does
not exist. I mean that's nottrue. She definitely does exist. Not
the one from not a friendly oneyou want to go chat with. Yeah,
it's just a different kind of pigeonlady. Yeah. So we did
all of the things that Kevin mcallisordid, went to all the spots from
the movie, took all these littlevideos of my son Riley, who he's
a pretty good actor, kind ofrecreating a lot of Kevin mccallister's steps,

(05:53):
which is just super cool for themand cool for us. Adorable. I
love that so much. I hateChristmas, but I love that for you
guys, because he looked really cutein all the videos. Yeah, there
was a lot of Christmas out therealready, like way more than there is
here in Nashville. Yeah, Christmaskind of person I am. Were you
excited about it? I was veryexcited. I love Christmas, so yes,
but also the fact that we gotto be there and experience that.
But it wasn't too cold, andyou know what I mean, it was

(06:14):
kind of like the best of it. It was fall weather with Christmas decorations.
I will say I used to livein New York. I lived there
for two years, and I lovedit at the time. Now it is
not for me, heaven, especiallywith two little kids. You were so
aware of how dirty everything is.Yeah, but that's kind of part of
the charm of New York City isthat everything's dirty. If somebody would just
set up a little stand off thesubway of every subway and with you know,

(06:34):
two dollars for a squirt of handsanitizer every time, Oh my god,
every single time. These are sogross. But we had a good
time. I'm glad you had fine. And the marathon. Your brother in
law ran in it. This isthe third time we've seen him do a
marathon. We saw I'm in Boston, we went there to watch. In
Chicago and now New York. Andif you've never been to a marathon,
even if you have no interest,it's just such a cool, inspiring experience

(06:59):
to see all those people, notonly running, but the crowds that come
out to support them. There's alot of people with disabilities out there running,
Everyone's cheering them on. It's justsuch a six miles. I was
about to ask how long a marathonis twenty six miles in the New York
City Marathon, I think it's twentysix point two Miles's right, you run
through five burrows like it's insane.It's wild. I don't even like to
drink five twenty six miles. Yeah, you would never do this marathon and

(07:21):
tried, you would fall on yourface. Not comparing our experience to any
of the runners, but trying tochase them like you saw them at mile
four and then at mile seventeen,and then at mile twenty two and then
close to the finish li like that'sexhausting on its own, trying to follow
along. It's a really cool momentto have. Yeah, it was very
cool. We loved it. ButI'm happy to be back. Very We're
happy that you're back. You wereprobably going to stay in New York City

(07:42):
forever and never come back to you. No, I think those days are
behind me. But well we haven'tscared them all too much yet, Zach,
look at us go. I'm proud. I love you, guys that
I missed you. Three things youneed to know. Just after seven o'clock
on this Tuesday morning, Ricky's gotthose three things? What's going on?
An investigation has been launched into theleak of alleged Covenant shooter school shooters writings.
Images of three pages were released yesterdayby a conservative YouTube talk show host.

(08:07):
Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell has directed MetroLaw director Walidets to launch an investigation
into how these images came about andhow they were released. While the investigation
has been launched, the mayor's officecould not independently verify that these images released
belonged to the shooter, as again, they were leaked by a random conservative
talk show host and not the police, which makes this an unverified source.

(08:28):
Right now, as this unfolds,we'll give you more detail. Tate McCrae
has announced a new album and aworld tour. Her sophomore album will be
called Think Later, comes out Decembereighth, and she's going to start a
world tour in April of next year, with a Nashville stop in August,
which is really exciting. And Heinzhas announced Pickle Ketchup the new Thing.

(08:50):
Where's zich Sack? We need you. This Ketchup mixes their classic pickle flavor
with the classic Ketchup flavor, andthe company says they came up with this
combo because seventy three percent of peoplethat they surveyed love pickles, so they
figured put them together. Pickles aregreat. Man. You guys around here,
you and Zach were both obsessed withwork ossess with pickles, not ketchup.
We don't like ketchup, but welove pickles. Oh so you're torn

(09:11):
on this, Yes, I amcompletely divided. I don't know if I
should even try it because I anythingthat has ketchup or touches ketchup I can't
eat. Interesting. Yeah, it'snot my thing. It's already a thing
in the UK, though, andthey said that everybody loved it so much
that apparently they're just going to keepmoving it across the globe. The US
will get it soon as that happens. We'll try to find it and try
it ourselves, you know, tosee if it's any good. But sure,
dip a pickle in there. I'lldo it just, you know,

(09:33):
for you and for everyone else.I will do this for you. I
will put my thoughts of ketchup tothe side. I've never wanted anything Moore
one seven five the River, Nicky, Zach and Manno in the morning,
it's time to learn something new atZach's fun Fact of the Day on one
of seven five of the River.So did you know that Kim Kardashian has
a glam clause and her will soit states if she's ever in a position

(09:54):
where she can't communicate, she's unconscious, or she can't eat, someone has
to make sure she does her herhair, nails, and makeup that it's
all that checks out. Interesting aclause. I never heard of one of
the I want one, thank youachyour new companion to that morning coffee,
Ricky, Zach and Manow in theMorning on the average American has not tried

(10:16):
a new restaurant in five months,five months. It's one of seven five
of the River. We want youto call in shout out a local restaurant
that people should go to six one, five, seven, three, seven,
nine one o seven No chain restaurants. Thanks for being a part of
our morning, Ricky, Zach andMeno in the Morning. This is wild
to me. But the average Americanhasn't tried a new restaurant in five months.

(10:39):
That is kind of wild. Fivemonths. Yeah, we uh,
we try restaurants all the time overin the Mano family. I love a
new place. I love trying newplaces, see what they have to offer.
So we asked you to tell usa local place that you think deserves
a shout out. Yeah, it'sone oh seven five the River Harley and
Ashton City. Hi there, Hello, Hi there. What's your local place?
Not a chain, give a localplace some love here on the river.

(11:01):
Yeah, so it is a localplace. It's called the Colo's Italian
Restaurant. They're really great. Everything'shomemade. Oh cool, homemade. I
love that. Where is it city? Okay, we're making a trip,
Kevin. We got to make atrip out to Ashland City because we're gonna
go check it out. Tasta man, you can't beat homemade pasta. Thank
you very much, Harley for calling. Denise listening in Nashville. Denise,

(11:24):
what's your your go to local place? My go to, Well, it's
a little place called Yummy Buck inMount Juliet. It's a Vietnamese Yes,
Okay, I love FA. Iwas hoping you said FA and I didn't
have to press the big red buttonover here. That yeah, Denise,
that sounds so good. Oh.I'm like you. I like to go

(11:46):
try out new places all the time. I've got a buddy of mine.
We go on Saturdays and try outsome place to new at lunch especially.
I know a lot of people havea lot of negative things to say about
the rapid expansion of Nashville, butone of the good things about it is
all the new restaurants, this newplace popping up all the time. I'm
a big pop up bar gal likeI like to try all the new pop
up bars that they do downtown.Did you I think that Home Alone is

(12:07):
coming back. Did you go lastyear? I did not go last year,
but it's on the list if itcomes back this year because I like
to check out something new. Theyhave new drink offerings. I went to
the Walka Bar during the Bean Idid the beetlejuice, theemed one. I
love doing those like fun new things. Yeah, those are great, Kevin
Mano, do you have one thatyou like local restaurant for me? I
guess if you've never been to LadybirdTaco in twelve South, Ladybird is delicious.

(12:28):
When we first moved here, welived right there. We lived in
twelve South, like half a blockaway from Ladybird. We were renting over
there. We would go all thetime. We still go all the time.
It is so good. I loveLadyburg and they have a great options
for you because you are a vegetarianexactly. Yeah, yeah, I actually
like vegetarian tacos there, vegetarian foodin general. Get the bad rap a
lot, it's not great. Doyou have one particular one I love?

(12:50):
I'm obsessed with Luogo right now inthe golch area. Okay, it's fairly
new. It's Italian. I'm astickler for Italian restaurants and Italian food because
New Jersey is known for like theirItalian food, and lu Wogo is so
good. It's a tiny little restaurant. It's delightful. Definitely try it out
if get a chance. Gets thestamp of approval from a Jersey girl.
Yo, go Ricky, Zach andManno in the morning on all right,

(13:16):
Kevin Manno's game of the day.We're playing music match game today. How
do you play? Kevin? Thisis I'm gonna give you two albums and
then two artists. You have totell me which of those artists release the
album. Okay, that seems easyenough, and if you win, you're
going to see Green Day. We'vegot McKenzie in Nashville on the line.
It's one oh seven five the River. How you feeling McKenzie, nervis,

(13:37):
don't be nervous. This is gonnabe good. I have a lot of
faith in you. I think youcould do this. You gotta get two
out of three. Okay, Okay, all right? Justice and Purpose?
Was that Justin Timberlake or Justin BieberYes, McKenney, you got the first
one. You gotta get another one, right though, the album's liberation and
back to basics. Was that KellyClarkson or Christine na Aguilera, Oh Kelly

(14:03):
clark Oh my Candy. That onewas hard. Though that one was hard,
You still have another chance. Thisis your last chance to win relapse
in recovery? Is that eminem orSnoop Dogg? And these tickets are not
even on SALEA McKenzie, You haverepair tickets to see Green Day to Smashing

(14:26):
Pumpkins, Rancid and the Linda Lindasat Gioda's Park next summer. Congratts,
you're so wellgo. We want lotsof videos of you dancing, singing,
head banging, jumping up and downand just enjoying yourself. Okay, you
gotta tag us three things you needto know. Ricky Sanchez? What is
going on in this World Dancing withthe Stars is doing a celebration of Taylor
Swift Night. So it's gonna airon ABC, Disney Plus and Hulu November

(14:50):
twenty first, and at that pointthere are we six couples remaining. They're
gonna choose all different kinds of songsfrom Taylor Swift's discography, so there's like
a million different songs that they canchoose from. Who knows what they'll go
with, and it'll just be alldedicated to our so really cute. Two
middle Tennessee cities are among the twentyfive fastest growing cities in the US.
Smart Asset It's, a financial techcompany, did a list of the fastest

(15:13):
growing cities with populations over one hundredthousand people in the United States. The
growth was based on a bunch ofdifferent things. Several cities around Tennessee made
the list, including two that crackedthe top twenty five, Murphy's Borough,
which ranked sixteenth, and Clarksville,which ranked twenty second. The populations grew
nineteen point one percent and fifteen pointfive percent, respectively between twenty seventeen and

(15:35):
twenty twenty two. So that ishuge and Oreo is going to pay you
to decorate for Christmas. So foreverybody who loves Christmas. You, Kevin
Manno, I'm looking at you.I know you already have some trees up.
They're doing this thing called their HolidayOreo Allowance or hoa cute little playoff
words there. So they're offering onethousand dollars prize to one hundred lucky participants.

(15:56):
Contest runs through November seventeenth. Youcan start an now, you just
got to upload a photo of yourdecorated home, share it to social media
tag Oreo, and they're gonna pickthe people that win. They're gonna get
an HOA welcome kit, so aOreo holiday themed kit, and the thousand
dollars. Thousand dollars sounds pretty good, not bad, so I suggest you

(16:17):
submit yourself. Doesn't have to belike ore themed decoration O reef no,
no, no, just gotta beChristmas themed and then you'll get all of
this good stuff. You're gonna getOreo cookies as well. Obviously bring them
in here. You guys have justbeen eating my kids Halloween king, don't
bring them in here. You area terrible influence. Thanks for being a
part of our morning. Ricky Zachand meno in the morning. The Christmas

(16:40):
gift test. This is where likeyou make your significant other either choose something
for you and like you leave itup to them or you tell them what
to get you. So I alwaysmake my significant other kind of find something
for me, so you don't tellif there's something you want, you're not
gonna tell a hey, I wantthis. No, it's like a test,
like a pass or fail, Likedid you pay attention to me all
year? We're gonna find out,Ricky, that is really messed up,

(17:03):
all evil elf kind of vibes.Yeah, but he's passed every what happens
if he fails the test, thenhe probably is gonna get He's gonna get
the vibe that I'm not happy withhim that he failed. But he hasn't
failed, so I don't actually know. I don't like it if there's helps
every year, if there's something youwant, you just need to ask for
it. Kevin, as the marriedman in the room, is this how
it works? No, not notthe way Ricky is describing it. That's

(17:26):
okay. It sounds like insanity toally tells you every year what you yeah,
yeah, yeah. If there's somethingwe want, we might mention it
like, hey, that'd be agood Christmas gift, you know, leaving
little clues, letting your you know, giving the rope to hang themselves.
That's not uh, not the waywe're fun this way because like throughout the
year, obviously there are like littlethings while you're out that like I pick
up and I'm like, oh,look cute. And he has like a

(17:48):
whole little notepad in his phone ofthings that he writes down throughout the year
that like I've this is a lotof work to be in a relationship with
Ricky's work. I don't know whatto say to you. It doesn't have
to be that hard, do you. Is there something hard specific you want
this year? No, because thisis the thing too. Some years I
don't even know what I want andhe figures it out for me. Essentially,
well, that's better. You makemy brain hurt, that's better to

(18:10):
me. It's not that difficult.It is that difficult attention to me.
That's the only thing. Oh,not that I'm super needy, but the
only thing is you have to payattention to me every single second of every
single day. I feel like that'spart of a relationship that's too much.
How it works. Thanks for beinga part of our morning, Ricky,
Zach and Menno in the morning.I love folk Malone, I mean post

(18:34):
Malone on that song right there.That's that everybody on TikTok he's calling him
folks Malone. Love it. Thatwas dial drunk on one on seven five
of the River. All right,we got our daily double tap. We
gotta get into. There is justsomething about the way that people can say
mind your business in a polite way, you know, like a professional way.
This news anchor, though, takesit to a whole new level.

(18:56):
It sounds like this good EFN you'retalking now is six fifty two. I'm
Janet Reez. This just into ournewsroom. We've gotten word of someone that's
involved in matters that don't concern them. Actually, we just got word here.
If you could do as a favorand take several seats. It's a
superpower that news voice. That voiceis so like powerful you know what I
mean for sure, and so kindin the way that she says to mind

(19:18):
your bits. She does this sortof thing a lot, like deliver different
lines in that news voice. Soher boyfriend will constantly be like, hey,
say this as a news anchor andthen she does it in a news
anchory voice, and it's just it'sperfect, it's on point. I'll post
it all one of Some and fivethe River's Instagram stories so you can check
it out for yourself. Ricky isZach and Manno in the morning on One the River
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